How can teachers and school systems educate their students while preventing them from dropping-out?
What are some ideas you have regarding how to positively impact inner-city school students?
How do we give them HOPE?
Growing & Learning
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Saving the Drop-Outs
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I think the best way to positively impact inner-city school students is to make learning fun and show the students that you really care about them. Also, I suggest looking up Ron Clark. He was the 2001 Disney Teacher of the Year award winner, and he has many great ideas on how to work with inner-city youth. I heard him speak when he visited BGSU, and he is very enthusiastic and passionate about what he does, and he has some great ideas! Also, there is a movie about him called "The Ron Clark Story".
ReplyDeleteInner-city school students struggle mostly because they don't have the support at home. I'm not saying mom and dad don't care, but usually it's a single-parent home or both parents are working to make ends meet. A lot of times those kids have to watch their younger siblings or keep a job themselves so their families can survive. We don't take into account that teenagers have just as much responsibility as us adults. They cannot always complete school work outside of the classroom and they rarely have the resources needed to complete the work (or the time.) Think about all of the things on your to-do list and now add 3-4 hours of homework a night. If you're gonna fail anyway, you might as well drop out and begin learning a trade or skill or at least be able to work full-time to get paid more and get benefits...
ReplyDeleteI think concentrating on improving the education provided at these inner-city schools is the best method. If the quality of education is improved then there will be two major impacts. The students will feel like they are truly obtaining a good education that may help them in their future endeavors. They may change from thinking of school as a waste of time to viewing it as a means to obtain a better job later. Furthermore, if more is actually learned in the classroom, students won't have to supplement quite as much out of school time to make up for poor teaching.
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